A piece in The Hamilton Spectator goes to show some of the problems with our legal and justice system.
Seems a lawyer thinks a decision should be overturned because the Crown can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his client was acting carelessly before he struck a cyclist and killed him over two years ago.
Never mind that he had another careless driving charge two months later.
Never mind that he had amassed fourteen thousand dollars in fines in the last ten years.
His client is not guilty, because no one was there to see the accident, therefore the cyclist may have swerved in front of the truck.
Never mind that victim was a competitive cyclist who would be well in control of his bike.
Never mind that the victim's family has suffered the same tragedy as if he had killed on duty.
Read the story here.
Why is this guy still driving?
Why is this guy not in jail?
The reason that I could never be a lawyer is that I could never find it in my morals to defend someone like this.
To quote Shakespeare , "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
(2 Henry VI, 4.2.59)
DJW
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